BARAMULLA: To ensure proper security arrangements and smooth media coverage during VVIP/VIP visits, official functions, religious gatherings, public events, and other occasions requiring police deployment, Police in Baramulla has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for regulating media access.
As per the SOP, only media persons possessing valid identity cards issued by the District Information Officer (DIO), Baramulla, shall be allowed entry into designated venues, media enclosures, and other restricted areas. Police personnel deployed at access control points have been directed to verify the identity cards of all media representatives before allowing access. No person claiming to represent print, electronic, digital, or social media shall be permitted entry without a valid DIO-issued identity card.
All supervisory officers have been directed to ensure strict implementation of these instructions. The SOP comes into effect with immediate effect and aims to strengthen security arrangements while ensuring smooth, orderly, and hassle-free media coverage of official events and security deployments.
Police appeals to all media organizations and journalists to cooperate with the police by carrying their valid DIO-issued identity cards while covering official events. The cooperation of the media will help ensure smooth security arrangements, orderly coverage, and the successful conduct of official programmes in the interest of public safety.